Legal terms explained: the prevention principle

‘The essence of the prevention principle is that the promisee cannot insist upon the performance of an obligation which he has prevented the promisor from performing’ (see Multiplex Constructions (UK) Ltd v Honeywell Control Systems Ltd (No 2) [2007] BLR 195).

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Out with the old normal – in with the new?

Commercial excellence is to be the ‘new normal’ in public sector procurement, Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, has said in a blog on the civil service website.   

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Construction site manager guilty of manslaughter

A project manager has been found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence after a woman walking past a London building site was killed when three large window frames fell on her.

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Contractor fined following dumper death

Laing O’Rourke Construction has been fined £800,000 after 38 year old employee Philip Griffiths was crushed and killed by a dumper truck at Heathrow Airport in October 2014.

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Contract reforms might fail

The government is improving the way it manages outsourced public services but precarious reforms could still fail, according to a report from the Institute for Government (IfG).

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ACE launches consultancy agreements

The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has launched six new contractual agreements and schedules of services aimed at meeting the evolving legal needs of modern project processes.

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Government settles £6Bn Magnox contract dispute

Government is terminating Cavendish Fluor Partnership’s (CFP’s) £6Bn Magnox decommissioning contract early following a mismanaged procurement process that has left the taxpayer with a £100M compensation bill.

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News in Brief: April 2017

High Speed 2 has delayed the formal awarding of a £170M ‘Phase 2B Delivery Partner’ contract to CH2M after rival bidder Mace raised a query over a possible conflict of interest.

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Payment dispute over Australian gas project

Laing O’Rourke has demobilised 800 of its workers from the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin, Australia over a payment dispute with its construction partner Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

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